Welfare Policy
Athlete Welfare at Eynsham Road Runners (ERR).
Raising a concern or complaint
We want all those who train or compete with us to feel safe at all times. While the committee takes overall responsibility for welfare across the club, it is the responsibility of all of us to ensure the welfare of ourselves and others. Any welfare concern should be reported immediately to England Athletics who will take action to address it and to our Welfare Officer. ERR maintains policies to support the welfare of those participating in its activities in line with EA/UKA guidance.
Concerns or complaints should be raised by reporting to England Athletics https://www.uka.org.uk/submit-a-concern/
or by email to
safeguarding@uka.org.uk.
Please also let our welfare officer Ros Hall know, she can be contacted at eynsham.errwelfare@gmail.com, Ros is usually at Wednesday evening club runs.
https://www.englandathletics.org/welfare/safeguarding/
Eynsham Road Runners (ERR) acknowledges the duty of care to safeguard and promote the welfare of everyone involved with the Club and is committed to ensuring safeguarding practice reflects statutory responsibilities, government guidance and complies with best practice and UK Athletics/England Athletics requirements.
We believe that everyone involved in athletics should enjoy their participation and development in safety and security and with protection from abuse, maltreatment or misconduct and every individual involved in the club is responsible for upholding this belief.
To this end the Club accepts the responsibility to provide a duty of care for all people (including children and vulnerable adults) within the sport and to safeguard their welfare, irrespective of age, impairment, gender, racial origin, religious belief and sexual identity.
ERR upholds the UKA Child Safeguarding Policy and Adult Safeguarding Policy which can be found at on the Safeguarding page of the EA Website.
https://www.englandathletics.org/welfare/safeguarding/
We believe that all athletes at the club should be treated equally and fairly and should know what is expected of them and what to expect from both the club, coaches and everyone associated with the Club.
To support and promote these aims the Club has adopted a number of codes of conduct in line with UKA which will apply to all members across all club activities including training sessions, race meetings, social events and in any public social media channels (Facebook, Twitter etc) or via digital communications such as email. Club members will be required to sign up to these policies on joining ERR and annually on renewal of membership.
link to UKA codes of conduct:
https://d1laub10p5ibfa.cloudfront.net/2023/04/Codes-of-Conduct-Booklet-March-2023-1.pdf
Mental Health
As part of the #RunAndTalk programme English Athletics aim to establish a network of volunteers across affiliated clubs in England to:
Promote mental wellbeing through running by supporting the aims of #RunAndTalk,
Work with their club/group to support its members to improve their mental health through running.
Support new people who are experiencing mental health problems to start running, get back into running, or continue running.
The role of the Mental Health Champion includes supporting, engaging, sharing, talking and advocating. We have a dedicated team of Mental Health Ambassadors to assist, advise and support led by Nigel Fisher who can be contacted via the secretary at eynsham.err@gmail.com
Neither role acts as a practitioner for providing mental health support but members will be provided with information and guidance on how to help someone access support.
